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WASHINGTON — To encourage former Iraqi WMD scientists to refrain from marketing their abilities to potential U.S. enemies, the U.S. State Department announced a plan yesterday to support those scientists in peaceful research projects dedicated to reconstructing the nation (see GSN, Nov. 17).

GSN Article

The United States will continue to provide funding to Uzbekistan through the Cooperative Threat Reduction program despite the former Soviet republic’s poor human rights performance, the Washington Post reported yesterday (see GSN, Dec. 8, 2003).

Speech

Recognizing that we have arrived at a dangerous tipping point in the nuclear era, Senator Nunn spoke at the Council on Foreign Relations about the path that he, George Shultz, Henry Kissinger and Bill Perry have charted for advancing the vision of a world free of nuclear weapons linked to specific steps to reduce nuclear dangers.

Speech

NTI co-chairman and CEO former Senator Sam Nunn accepted the inaugural "Nunn-Lugar Award for Promoting Nuclear Security" from the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace at The Hague.

Testimony

In this testimony before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Laura Holgate offers various approaches that could help the G-8 fulfill the promise of greater resources and more comprehensive, better coordinated world-wide commitment reflected in its June announcement of the Global Partnership Against the Spread of Weapons and Materials of Mass Destruction.

Report

Securing the Bomb 2007, commissioned by the Nuclear Threat Initiative, finds a dangerous gap in efforts to thwart nuclear terrorism and calls for urgent global campaign to reduce the risk. The report provides a comprehensive assessment of efforts to secure and remove vulnerable nuclear stockpiles around the world and a detailed action plan for keeping nuclear weapons and their essential ...

Report

A new book from the Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) warns that substandard security at nuclear facilities in Russia, Pakistan, and Central Asia increases the risk of terrorists seizing highly enriched uranium to make crude, but devastating, nuclear explosives. It urges the United States and its international partners to take immediate steps to prevent the most catastrophic forms of nuclear ...